Re:Forget Solar Panels. Here Come Rain Panels
by pc2g4d on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:17PM
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Perhaps an unrealistic test environment?
Re:Forget Solar Panels. Here Come Rain Panels
by K0balt on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:49PM
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Blasting the panel with a fire hose? Lol
Re:Forget Solar Panels. Here Come Rain Panels
by billbr on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:13AM
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It may be on some level a culture issue. Grand announcements in unreproducible results are more common in societies with a profound respect for learning. Think Dr. Pangloss …
Re:Forget Solar Panels. Here Come Rain Panels
by billbr on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:33AM
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Placing the rain power panel under a waterfall might generate a useful amount of energy, eventually. The key feature is some sort of vertical conductive channel that gets the charges away from each other quickly. Maybe the idea is that if they can produce power in a worst case, they can improve solar panel efficiency in low light condition. Anyway, it sounds like useful research that got into the hands of the marketing department. Lost in several layers of translation ?
That seems like an utterly fanciful figure for kinetic harvesting, and AFAIK the droplet charge also wouldn’t be enough? What am I missing here?
“The peak power output of the bridge array generators is nearly 5 times higher than that of the conventional large-area raindrop energy with the same size, reaching 200 watts per square meter,” Li explained, “which fully shows its advantages in large-area raindrop energy harvesting.”